February 2009
24 posts
January 2009
35 posts
“At heart, I’m a designer, and designers care passionately about making sure the...”
– What’s Your Suggestion?
“Like designers, if you give a programmer a problem with parameters, they’ll...”
– Programmers are Tiny Gods (via DF)
The Politics of Flash
stevenf:
It’s not a secret: I don’t like Flash.
I don’t like Flash because it is responsible for the overwhelming majority of my browser crashes. I don’t like it because it consumes memory and (especially) CPU resources on my computer for almost the sole purpose of showing me advertisements, which also translates directly to reduced battery life on my laptop.
Furthermore, I resent the way...
“Like designers, if you give a programmer a problem with parameters, they’ll...”
– Derek Powazek, via DF & David Kaneda
“people are often successful not despite their dysfunctions but because of them....”
– The Interview Question You Should Always Ask
“‘How am I supposed to effectively lead this nation when [attorney general...”
– Obama Disappointed Cabinet Failed To Understand His Reference To ‘Savage Sword Of Conan’ #24
“Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest...”
– Paul Rand (via Monoscope)
Watch500+ attendees. $23,000+ raised for Daily Bread Foodbank. 14 days from conception to execution. Twitter bringing people together not just online.
“I’m in L.A. Gasol-in’ But when I’m in New Orleans, you can...”
– The Game, Red Magic
“The rose can go by any other name because the rose is unchanging; the book is...”
– By any other name / from a working library
How to send a personal email
Here are some easy to follow tips that will help you avoid being seen as a spammer, or having your emails trashed or ignored. The thing is this: email reduces friction. Greedy, lazy organizations have embraced this and tried to figure out how to blast as many emails as they can as cheaply as they can, relying on the law of large numbers. The real law of large numbers is, “using large numbers...
“When the new stuff doesn’t work, do the new stuff more and better.”
– Seth’s Blog: What to do when the new thing doesn’t work
“The price of a Whopper is approximately $2.40. That means that each user’s...”
– Facebook’s valuation (in Whoppers)
“The Chandlers sure are taking a long time to watch their latest movie. I hope...”
– Timothy McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Short Imagined Monologues
“Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because...”
– David Gelernter, Machine Beauty: Elegance and the Heart of Technology (via 37signals)
“So now I’ve said more than I wanted to say, and all that I am going to say,...”
– Letter from Apple CEO Steve Jobs
“To sum up Apple’s strategy (and Tony Montana’s):
Step #1: Get...”
– Deal Range: The App Store: First Comes Power (via Gruber)
